Thursday, September 10, 2009

Paul Vallone denies being a lobbyist

At a District 19 candidates night on September 2nd in Bayside hosted by the Historic Districts Council, candidate Paul Vallone was asked by a resident about how he's still a registered lobbyist, how his campaign has taken tens of thousands of dollars from developers and how he can reconcile that with his promises to curb overdevelopment.

Listen to his non-answer, which includes his assertion that his father owns a consulting firm and therefore as his family member, he is required to put his name on the list, too, which is false.

69 comments:

Anonymous
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Vallone is a disgrace. The community needs to support the one candidate who has been calling him on this since the race began, Steve Behar. Behar has stood up at community board meetings as Tony Avella's representative, and with Tony's endorsement will stand up to developers in City hall. The choice is clear; big money hacks (Vallone, Iannece) or someone who isn't owned by real estate developers.

But please leave the Vallone family alone. They are very religious. Peter, Sr. goes to Mass everyday, makes the Sign of the Cross and receives Communion.

Why I even saw him once at City Hall, when he was the Speaker, take visitors to the back of the Council Chamber and show them an image of the Virgin Mary that was depicted in the wood grain paneling on the wall. He is a very holy man and I'm sure he has passed on his saintliness to his sons.

Vallone:"Our campaign is about unity, positive message, it's about you..."

Sure Paul, but what about the real issues? You can't give a clear answer to any of them, because you owe every builder, developer, and real estate person your ass.

Maybe Paul that's what you should say your campaign is about: how you're going to dismiss every zoning, land use & building complaint that the 19th district brings to your office in favor of ALL the people who OWN you.

Can you just imagine how he'd give the same empty, gobbly-gook response to every constituent with a problem?

But don't worry Anon, both libel and slander suits are in the works. A collective effort by some of the staffers and community leaders that have been professionally and personally damaged by malicious fabricated claims and hate speech.

Freedom of speech doesn't apply when malice is involved.

Ooooooo I can't wait. How does mortgaging your little Maspeth dump sound Crapper? Mom is gonna be so proud!

"But don't worry Anon, both libel and slander suits are in the works. A collective effort by some of the staffers and community leaders that have been professionally and personally damaged by malicious fabricated claims and hate speech."

But don't worry Anon, both libel and slander suits are in the works. A collective effort by some of the staffers and community leaders that have been professionally and personally damaged by malicious fabricated claims and hate speech.---

Look, a lot of stuff said here (like at City Council, City hearings, civic meetings, community board meetings, etc etc is stupid.

Many have said that.

But shutting down a website that is an expression of free speech?

Not going to be easy - when you are in a position that impacts on peoples lives, be it a city offical, or in a civic, or whatever, if someone thinks that you are doing a poor job, you are open to comment.

Attacking free speach (and a blog like Crappy) is likely the worst thing you can do - not only will all the dirty laundry come out, but you find that stomping on a freedom in one place, the ideas will only have a funny way of popping up again in the most unexpected places.

A bit like tar baby.

Better to debate them toe to toe.

But, being a hack, you are probibably too stupid for this advice anyway.

Special rules apply in the case of statements made in the press concerning public figures, which can be used as a defense. A series of court rulings led by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) established that for a public official (or other legitimate public figure) to win a libel case, the statement must have been published knowing it to be false or with reckless disregard to its truth, (also known as actual malice).[15]

Vallone's hacks are out in force. He is a registered lobbyist, he has received thousands from development firms and developers. Thanks for playing Paul, but we don't want a developer's butt-boy representing our neighborhood.

I'm so done with all this obfuscation and bull. He's taken a TON of money from developers, regardless of whether he's blatantly corrupt or not it will be nearly impossible for him to ignore those ties wif he's elected. That alone is enough to keep me from voting for him.

I'm voting Behar, the guy who's been onto Vallone and the developers from the start of this race.

Despite the fact that Paul Vallone's dome is plastered all over the universe with expensive ads...his goons still feel the need to scope and counter post with idle lawsuit threats on lil' ol' "Queens Crap".

That doesn't sound like La Famiglia di Vallone is so cock sure of winning the eastern 19th district council seat for figlio Paulo!

so I guess vallones campaign manager attacking Iannece in the Queens Ledger was "my campaign has never attacked anyone" ? freakin idiot is not gonna be the target of all kind of negative attacks cause HE STARTED IT FIRST ! Moron.

It's funny that Paul Vallone couldn't even try to blame the lobbyist label on the family law firm. Had he said that because of the business dealings of the law firm, and because he is the managing partner of the law firm, he had to register as a lobbyist, some people might have bought it. But he wasn't even smart enough to come up with that alibi, er, excuse.

The Vallones have never won a competitive race. The father lost for Congress, Mayor and Governor.The brother ran unopposed for his Council seat with the same name as his father. Paulie will lose as well.

Funny...just about last month I picked up a local newspaper in a pizzeria in the Belmont section of the Bronx (Arthur Avenue's old Italian section)...in which I quickly spotted a prominent ad for the Vallone law firm.

Other versions of that newspaper are also published in Florida and Italy!

H-m-m-m...you may draw you're own conclusions about mafiosi...political or otherwise.

The Vallones maintain a well oiled, finely polished public image as is evident in Paul's homey mom & apple pie (complete with his smiling kiddies) campaign litter-ature photos.

The skeleton in the back door closet has always been the Vallone family's close ties with the NYC real estate industry.

When a lawyer (and all of them are) takes money from a lot of developer clients but gets his freebie votes from you...where do you think his real loyalties are likely to be...with you or the ones who provide money to put bread (and many luxuries) on his table?

Run that through your brain before you vote for any Vallone.

Vote for anyone else or you might be letting an egg sucking dog loose in your hen house.

It's your neighborhood...so make a wise decision before it begins to resemble Astoria.

I'm Italian and I'm sick & tired of seeing people like the Vallone's as public figures. I'm fed-up with the mobster, payola, back-room-deal-making stereotypes that Italian-Americans like the Vallone's represent.

Thank goodness for guys like Tony Avella and Steve Behar (yes, his last name is a shortened Italian one) so that my kids can see that honest, hard-working Italian-Americans do run for office and WIN and not just these goombahs and cavones.

I too agree that Vallone is going to win this. Jerry should of made a deal with Tom Cooke and Steve Behar months ago...then maybe the 19th district wouldn't be destroyed like it will be when Vallone and his developer friends are finished with it. I urge all democrats to vote for Dan Halloran should Paul Vallone win....which I think he will.

Poor Paul. He thinks that bullshit his old man sold Astoria for twenty years is going to work over here. Guess what. Its not.

And Paulie has made such a fool of himself let his brother come over here and try to run borough wide. Paul has every political leader, every civic, the historical society and everyone else against him and the Vallone name is mud.

80 percent of the voters will vote against the Vallone name. Mark my words.

We are EDUCATED out here you fuckin neanderthal. You think that double speak bullshit works.The people in the audience have college degrees or run successful businesses. The guy who owns the pizza is store is smarter than you.

They are not like you and your brother leaching off your father who is a lobbyist.

Come to think of it...every don and wannabee don...be they an actual or political mafioso...always uses the same old tried and true method of introducing and sanctifying themselves within the unsuspecting community by entering the arena through the back door of the church!

Donate funds...get on committees...help found a group as daddy Pete and grand daddy Charles probably did.

BE SEEN EVERY SUNDAY AT MASS!

What an infamnia!

You don't fool us savvy voters here out east with your veneer of piety.

Do you confess or even consider your family's long time close association with the NYC real estate industry as sins?

Yeah...right..."Bless me Father for I have taken thousands of dollars from real estate developers".

This ain't Astoria bub.

We've see La Familglia di Vallone at work there for decades and we don't want you soiling our clean neighborhoods!

Let's get this straight, Tony Avella has always hated iannece because Iannece, as Community Board Chair showed him up all the time. The scoop I heard from a pretty reliable source was that Avella backed the chipmunk Behar because Avella knows he won't win the primary for mayor. If the jerk "can't put a sentence together Behar" won,Avella would have no problem regaining his council seat in 4 years.

this site continues to make me laugh. Bunch of jerkoffs who are mad that the will never achieve what the Vallones have. You guys better start packing if you dont like Paul cause hes clearly going to win.

As a Conservative Catholic I hope Vallone wins. Halloran is a Libertarian and also some sort of "pagan priest" or something. How could a pagan represent the traditional Catholic values of our DIstrict?

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